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Will of the Abzan card art
Live Play Data

Will of the Abzan

{3} {B} · Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
672
Decks Running
347
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
63%
Format

First-cast turn

n=92
0%
T1
1%
T2
2%
T3
5%
T4
13%
T5
61%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 9% (5 / 92 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

672 brought · 309 players
Brought to game
672
Ever drawn
147
Reached battlefield
92
Still on board at game end
3
≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=88) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=429).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=47).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +13.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

180 instances
2.8%
Library
1.7%
Battlefield
65.0%
Graveyard
7.2%
Exile
Card text
Will of the Abzan card

Will of the Abzan

{3} {B}
Sorcery
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.